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Events from the year 1810 in the United States.
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Incumbents [edit]
- President: James Madison (Democratic-Republican)
- Vice President: George Clinton (Democratic-Republican)
- Chief Justice: John Marshall
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Joseph Bradley Varnum (Dem.-Rep.-Massachusetts)
- Congress: 11th
Events [edit]
- May 1 – Macon's Bill Number 2 becomes law, intending to motivate Britain and France to stop seizing American vessels during the Napoleonic Wars.
- June 4 – The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves is founded in Dedham, Massachusetts.
- June 23 – John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
- September 8 – The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a 6-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria.
- September 23 – The Republic of West Florida declares independence from Spain.
- October 27 – The United States annexes the Republic of West Florida.
Undated [edit]
- The first steamboat sails on the Ohio River.
Births [edit]
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Further reading [edit]
- A. R. Beck. Notes of a Visit to Philadelphia, Made by a Moravian Sister in 1810. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 36, No. 3 (1912), pp. 346–361
- Governor Gerry's Latin Speech, 1810. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. 59, (October , 1925 - June , 1926),
- S. E. Morison. Forcing the Dardanelles in 1810: With Some Account of the Early Levant Trade of Massachusetts. The New England Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 2 (April , 1928), pp. 208–225
- Erwin Stresemann. On a Collection of Birds from Georgia and Carolina Made about 1810 by John Abbot. The Auk, Vol. 70, No. 2 (April , 1953), pp. 113–117
- Edward C. Carter II. Birth of a political economist: Mathew Carey and the recharter fight of 1810-1811. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 33, No. 3 (July 1966), pp. 274–288
- J. Meredith Neil. "Plain and Simple Principles" for an American Art, 1810. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 93, No. 3 (July , 1969), pp. 410–416
- Richard W. Gronet. United States and the Invasion of Texas, 1810-1814. The Americas, Vol. 25, No. 3 (January , 1969), pp. 281–306
- Raymond A. Mohl. "The Grand Fabric of Republicanism" a Scotsman Describes South Carolina 1810-1811. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 3 (July , 1970), pp. 170–188
- Joseph Ewan. An Overlooked Printed "Catalogue of Plants in the Botanick Garden of South-Carolina," 1810. Taxon, Vol. 42, No. 2 (May 1993), pp. 365–367
- Joanna Bowen Gillespie. Filiopietism as Citizenship, 1810: Letters from Martha Laurens Ramsay to David Ramsay Jr.. Early American Literature, Vol. 29, No. 2 (1994), pp. 141–165
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